GEAR (connected with " garb," properly elegance,

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• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion, especially of

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• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress, and with " gar," to cause to do, only found in Scottish and

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• NORTHERN

northern dialects; the

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• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root of the word is seen in the Old

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• TENT

Tent. garwjan, to make ready)  , an outfit, applied to the wearing apparel of a person, or to the harness and trappings of a horse or any draft animal, as riding-gear, hunting-gear, &c.; also to household goods or stuff . The phrase " out of gear," though now connected with the mechanical application of the word, was originally used to signify " out of harness " or condition, not ready to work, not fit . The word is also used of apparasus generally, and especially of the parts collectively in a machine by which motion is transmitted from one part to another by a series of cog-wheels, continuous bands, &c . It is used in a special sense in reference to a bicycle, meaning the diameter of an imaginary wheel, the circumference of which is equal to the distance accomplished by one revolution of the pedals (see BICYCLE) .